~ Philosophy, Critical Theory, Christianity

Predestination

“This is why radical acts of freedom are possible only under the condition of predestination: in predestination, we know we are predestined, but we don’t know how we are predestined, i.e., which of our choices is predetermined, and this terrifying situation in which we have to decide what to do, knowing that our decision is decided in advance, is perhaps the only case of real freedom, of the unbearable burden of a really free choice— we know that what we will do is predestined, but we still have to take a risk and subjectively choose what is predestined”